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by nonsequ 9y ago
Well he’s calling for more education and awareness. It’s like Big Food. The entire CPG industry has been stuffing people with sugar, salt, and fat for decades, exploiting human nature. We are finally seeing society resist this as we have be
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by nonsequ 9y ago
I run an AHK script with a little over 2000 abbreviations (e.g. typing 'abbn' expands to 'abbreviation'). It helps me type 100+ WPM without too much strain.
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by nonsequ 9y ago
I think PG once wrote an essay explaining that most press is agenda-driven and there's somebody with money behind the story. I wonder if that's the case here. F1 just passed out of Bernie Ecclestone's hands and has a new lead
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by nonsequ 11y ago
Yes, sell-side (i.e. brokers like Goldman, Morgan Stanley, etc.) analysts do share their models with clients. They do this both in 'hardcopy,' pasted into published research reports, as well as 'softcopy,' sending or pub
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by nonsequ 11y ago
What kind of demand do you think there is for a Linux-only mainframe? My limited understanding is that most mainframe customers are locked-in, e.g. they have legacy COBOL code running their ledger system and the expense to switch off of it
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Amex unveils password checkout to rival PayPal(nfcworld.com)
1 points by nonsequ 11y ago|0 comments
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by nonsequ 12y ago
This is interesting and I'd like to hear more opinions on it. My impression is that distributed computing has been eating Power/Sparc/Z processors' lunch for a long time now because software has made up for the deficienc
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Amazon to Open First Brick-and-Mortar Location(online.wsj.com)
83 points by nonsequ 12y ago|70 comments
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Mainframes are 50 years old and still relevant(it-tna.com)
1 points by nonsequ 12y ago|0 comments
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by nonsequ 13y ago
Are the rovers too far away to drive there and check up on it? It's amazing to me that it has taken us so long to arrive at such a tentative result on the existence of water on Mars. In a weird way, I find it heartening that there are
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by nonsequ 13y ago
I'm interested in learning more about this. Does anybody have any thoughts? I think that, by intentionally posting unlikeable things, he guarantees himself 100% spam likes. On something that's actually likeable, these spam likes m
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by nonsequ 13y ago
I had the same thought. Unfortunately, the article doesn't make it crystal clear how much information the neural net uses to bet against you. It would be patently unfair if it actually knew your hand. According to the article, this is
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by nonsequ 13y ago
What does IBM have to contribute to self-driving cars? Google's work has gotten by far the most attention.
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Google and IBM to work on self-driving cars with Continental(reuters.com)
33 points by nonsequ 13y ago|9 comments
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by nonsequ 14y ago
I know HN thinks Google is much cooler than IBM, but is it weird that I like IBM's chances in ML progressing to AI? For one thing, Watson was a very impressive demonstration. For another, it has the old materials science know-how to create
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by nonsequ 14y ago
Can anyone shed some light on what 'Director of Engineering' might mean at Google? It sounds rather unassuming for a person of his stature.
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by nonsequ 15y ago
Would you (or anybody else who's deep in this) mind expanding? Does it have something to do with carrier subsidies?
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by nonsequ 15y ago
The weird thing is that Apple is trading for less than 10x PE and Chipotle for about 40x. Chipotle is certainly well-appreciated on Wall Street and, given the implications of the PE, is seen as a steadier and more resilient business that wi
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by nonsequ 15y ago
Ouch. I haven't seen a lot of companies make announcements like these. Usually they build low-quality apps and just leave them to languish on App World. I've heard that it's actually more expensive to develop an app for them than other plat
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by nonsequ 15y ago
Thanks, appreciate the point. After all, part of the reason we moved away from gold as currency in the first place was its inability to keep up with economic expansion.
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by nonsequ 15y ago
I don't think that Buffett is saying that stocks, at any given point in time, will deliver you better returns over a given time period than gold or bonds. He quite clearly notes that there are times when bonds are beaten up and they'll offe
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by nonsequ 15y ago
This sounds excellent for Corning. As a company that melts glass by the pound and sells it by the square foot, 20% thinner should result in net cost savings. What I'm most excited to see in production on a phone are their matte finishes.
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by nonsequ 15y ago
I particularly enjoyed the last infographic on temperature because it makes me appreciate air conditioning all the more. It says music halls reached 150 degrees and theaters 125 degrees. Can you imagine listening to a concert in that kind
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by nonsequ 15y ago
The really funny thing is that the LCD panel business is generally horrible. All profits must be reinvested in expensive new production lines, there's little differentiation among makers, and everybody's been gunning for market share in a
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by nonsequ 15y ago
Roger L. Martin, the author of the book hawked in this article, is also a director at RIM. Maximizing shareholder value indeed! That said, Roger is correct (incidentally or not) in my book to criticize the short-term casino nature of the p
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by nonsequ 15y ago
Having actually played against Watson, it certainly feels unfair when you've got a response you're 100% sure of on the tip of your tongue but you have to wait several long seconds for the question to be read. All the while you're despera
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by nonsequ 15y ago
My bet is that he'd lose. Beyond a certain level of knowledge, successful Jeopardy is all about hitting the buzzer first. Watson has a huge advantage in that respect because it gets the signal to buzz in electrically.